The IRS has removed the entire investigative team in the Hunter Biden tax evasion investigation.
“Today the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Supervisory Special Agent we represent was informed that he and his entire investigative team are being removed from the ongoing and sensitive investigation of the high-profile, controversial subject about which our client sought to make whistleblower disclosures to Congress,” attorneys Tristan Leavitt and Mark Lytle of Empower Oversight and Nixon Peabody LLP, respectively, wrote in a letter to Congress obtained by the Washington Examiner.
THE TOP ISSUES KENTUCKY GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES ARE CAMPAIGNING ON
The removal order came from the Department of Justice, according to the letter, which also called the move “clearly retaliatory.”
“Any attempt by any government official to prevent a federal employee from furnishing information to Congress is also a direct violation of longstanding appropriations restriction. Furthermore, 18 U.S.C. § 1505 makes it a crime to obstruct an investigation of Congress,” the letter read.
In April, the agent’s attorney Lytle informed a group of congressional leaders that his client had information he was inclined to share about the Hunter Biden case and requested whistleblower protections, according to a letter obtained by the Associated Press.
The letter states that, despite potential retaliation, “my client is offering to provide you with information necessary to exercise your constitutional oversight function and wishes to make the disclosures in a nonpartisan manner to the leadership of the relevant committees on both sides of the political aisle.”
“We respectfully request that you give this matter your prompt attention,” the May 15 letter read.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
“Removing the experienced investigators who have worked this case for years and are now the subject-matter experts is exactly the sort of issue our client intended to blow the whistle on to begin with,” it added.
Jerry Dunleavy contributed to this report.
